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Financial talk for the rest of usTue, 14 Oct 2014 16:18:02 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0By: Dr. Rubinihttp://www.thesimpledollar.com/making-the-case-against-mutual-funds-and-breaking-it/#comment-295764
Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:33:21 +0000http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/03/30/making-the-case-against-mutual-funds-and-breaking-it/#comment-295764i went to a workshop today and the advisor was against mutual funds. i had made a big investment in heebner’s cgm focus fund even with the high turnover. ben stein says my stocks did poorly in 2007 but my mutual funds did okay. my theoryis with stocks you can win big or lose big and with mutua funds that is limited on both side.look at the wsj’s top stocks and see how much they arew down and then take anymutual fund, down less. so in a bad year mutual funds are beter- i think a mixture is best email me if you difer with my comments
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Sat, 31 Mar 2007 23:38:19 +0000http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/03/30/making-the-case-against-mutual-funds-and-breaking-it/#comment-14654I had a lot of money tied up in mutual funds and reinvested the dividends. They did very well. As competition between funds became tougher I found that my funds traded a lot and left me with a lot of capital gains. I found that I was writing a huge tax check in April for these gains and didn’t think I was getting a real benefit from them.
]]>By: Danhttp://www.thesimpledollar.com/making-the-case-against-mutual-funds-and-breaking-it/#comment-14393
Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:10:29 +0000http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/03/30/making-the-case-against-mutual-funds-and-breaking-it/#comment-14393Something I haven’t seen emphasized enough is that an index fund–while it may not follow a single stock–certainly follows the market.

And the market is going to dip, spike, correct, go on runs, run out of gas, sputter, dip some more, return, make someone else rich, etc.

Investing in the market is a long-term investment on the bet that the markets in which you are invested will prosper in the long run. Be careful to treat it as such.

]]>By: Jameshttp://www.thesimpledollar.com/making-the-case-against-mutual-funds-and-breaking-it/#comment-14388
Fri, 30 Mar 2007 17:35:47 +0000http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2007/03/30/making-the-case-against-mutual-funds-and-breaking-it/#comment-14388I think a more important thing to note with regards to your “skewed success” comment is that almost all actively-managed funds fail to beat (or match…) the market over long times.